Ignatius of Antioch, Epistles, Kirsopp Lake (Translator), 1.20

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[1] If Jesus Christ permit me through your prayers.¹ and it be his will, in the second book,² which I propose to write to you, I will show you concerning the dispensation of the new man Jesus Christ, which I have begun to discuss, dealing with his faith and his love, his suffering and his resurrection;

[2] especially if the Lord reveal³ to me that you all severally join in the common meeting in grace from his name,⁴ in one faith and in Jesus Christ, who was of the family of David according to the flesh, the Son of Man and the Son of God, so that you obey the bishop and the presbytery with an undisturbed mind, breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality, the antidote that we should not die, but live for ever in Jesus Christ.

Epistles. Ignatius of Antioch. Kirsopp Lake (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1912.

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Epistulae vii genuinae First1KGreek (Ignatius of Antioch. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1912.) — 1.20 focus

[1] Ἐάν με καταξιώσῃ Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἐν τῇ προσευχῇ ὑμῶν καὶ θέλημα ᾖ, ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ βιβλιδίῳ, ὃ μέλλω γράφειν ὑμῖν, προσδηλώσω ὑμῖν, ἦς ἠρξάμην οἰκονομίας εἰς τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ πίστει καὶ ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ ἀγάπῃ, ἐν πάθει αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀναστάσει:

[2] μάλιστα ἐὰν ὁ κύριός μοι ἀποκαλύψῃ, ὅτι ¹ οἱ κατ̓ ἄνδρα κοινῇ πάντες ἐν χάριτι ἐξ ὀνόματος συνέρχεσθε ἐν μιᾷ πίστει καὶ ἐν ² Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ. ³ τῷ κατὰ σάρκα ἐκ γένους Δαυείδ, τῷ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου καὶ υἱῷ θεοῦ, εἰς τὸ ὑπακούειν ὑμᾶς τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ καὶ τῷ πρεσβυτερίῳ ἀπερισπάστῳ διανοίᾳ, ἕνα ἄρτον κλῶντες, ὅς ἐστιν φάρμακον ἀθανασίας, ἀντίδοτος τοῦ μὴ ἀποθανεῖν, ἀλλὰ ζῆν ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ διὰ παντός.

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Epistles

1. Promise of future doctrinal exposition

2. This second book was either never written, or at all events is not extant in the genuine recension: but a later editor has supplied a second epistle to the Ephesians which is undoubtedly not genuine.

3. This appears to be the only possible translation. But the text is not improbably corrupt.

4. Or possibly, as Lightfoot thinks, ἐξ ὀνόματος means every individual of you. It is in any case a strange phrase.

Ignatius of Antioch Epistles 1.20

Kirsopp Lake (Translator)

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